The highlight of the walk for me was the carvings on the sandstone platforms. The Royal National Park is in Dharawal country. This country stretches from the southern shores of Botany Bay, west to Campbelltown, and as far south as the Shoalhaven River in Nowra.

The Dharawal are saltwater people, and the carvings of their food sources – mostly sea-creatures – illustrates that. This is an education site, teaching the young men about hunting.

Elsewhere on the walk I encountered more fabulously weathered sandstone, a real highlight on any walk in the Sydney Basin coastline.

We’ve come to the end of our little Bundeena retreat. Next time, I’ll start off on new series somewhere in New South Wales.